Gov't Mule

Dose is loaded with longhair boogie-rock jams and bell-bottomed blues riffs. Gov't Mule take the Beatles' "She Said She Said" and make it sound like ZZ Top and the Allman Brothers are mud wrestling with the Grateful Dead's "Casey Jones." "Thelonious Beck" is a jazz odyssey that works far better than Spinal Tap's similar concept.

Gov't, Mule go beyond grunge to something that might be called sludge: blues-based
power-trio expostulations performed at ass-dragging tempos. For guitarist Warren Haynes
and bassist Allen Woody, Gov't. Mule used to be a side project – sort of their own Hot Tuna
to the Allman Brothers' Jefferson Airplane – but since bailing out of the Allmans last year,
it's become their main focus. You can almost feel the cumbersome yoke they be... More >